This is one of the last fall guided tours to explore fungi and mushrooms in Ottawa Valley. We'll start our excursion with a visit to Eagle’s Nest Lookout. After that, we’ll explore several places in Calabogie areas to find the late fall mushrooms.
The Amherst Island, located near Kingston, is well known as one of the perfect places for birdwatching. We organize our next guided hike to the Island for those who are interested to know more about birds and other wild, creatures inhabiting this area.
This is a fun activity for families with kids. We'll learn how to identify birds and mammals. We'll explore animal footprints on snow and on trees around. We'll know how animals survive in the harsh winter conditions.
We invite families with kids for a spring hike in Gatineau Park. We'll meet near the Visitor Center of the Gatineau Park and then move to P6 (Parking 6) near Mackenzie King Estate. Kids will have a chance to explore the ruins and to know about the history of this place. And then, we'll visit a waterfall at a distance of around 500-700 m from parking, stopping that to listen to birds and watch animal tracks. This guided hike will be in English and Russian.
We organize our next guided tour to Purdon Conservation Area with a famous colony of magnificent Showy Lady's Slippers, which usually bloom at the end of June.
This is a guided nature tour in Ottawa Greenbelt for observation of inhabitants of the forest and identification of plant and fungi species, which we'll find near the trail.
Join us for a journey to the Ottawa Valley’s last wild river – the Dumoine! A land of mature and old-growth forests, countless lakes, streams and wetlands – home to moose, bear, wolves and over 160 species of birds. This June we are organizing a trip for naturalists and photographers to capture the beauty of this place at the beginning of summer.
High Lonesome Nature Reserve is located not far from Pakenham. The reserve has rich biodiversity and is interesting for visits in the different seasons of the year.
This is a guided nature tour to explore Forêt-la-Blanche Ecological Reserve, located in southern Quebec not far from Gatineau. This area is known for its rich diversity of undisturbed trees, amphibians, reptiles, birds, insects, many interesting plants, and mushrooms.
This is travel for people who like hiking and nature exploration. First, we'll visit the Eagle Nest area to see the environment from a peak. Later, we'll visit several areas around that to see plants, flowers, fungi, and mushrooms in the forests around.
This is a guided tour for those who want to know more about mushrooms in Ottawa Valley. The middle of July is a time when the first summer edible mushrooms appear in forests. We hope to see several species of chanterelles and we'll try to learn how to identify edible and poisonous species of mushrooms.
Early August is a time when the first bird migrants start to move to the south: ruby-throated hummingbirds are among those migrants. This is also a time when you can observe some tiny amphibians (spring peepers and grey tree-frog) hunting insects from tall perennial plants... If you are interested to see the changes in nature after bird breeding season, join our guided tour to High Lonesome Nature Reserve, located near Pakenham in Ottawa Valley.
